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China sends cloud powered by homebrew Loongson CPUs into space

Plus: Korea cracks down on Temu; US, Vietnam, sign infosec pact; India extends controversial hardware import law; and more

AWS gives its management screens a makeover in the name of improved productivity

Maybe it was crowded layout, inconsistent colors and drop shadows that made cloud so hard?

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Trump taps border hawk to head DHS. Will Noem's 'enthusiasm' extend to digital domain?

Meanwhile, CISA chief Jen Easterly will step down prior to inauguration

Datacenters could blow up your electric bill thanks to AI

Operators may have to pay more for energy if capacity cannot meet demand

EU buyers still shunning pure electric vehicles, prefer hybrids

Dual power source beat petrol-only autos for second month running

Mega defense corp Thales faces Anglo-French bribery and corruption probe

Authorities remain tight-lipped on specifics

Techie left 'For support, contact me' sign on a server. Twenty years later, someone did

A certain very famous PC manufacturer may not be very good at documenting its legacy tech

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Volunteer DEF CON hackers dive into America's leaky water infrastructure

Six sites targeted for security clean-up, just 49,994 to go

Andrew Tate's site ransacked, subscriber data stolen

He'll just have to take this one on the chin

1,000s of Palo Alto Networks firewalls hijacked as miscreants exploit critical hole

PAN-PAN! Intruders inject web shell backdoors, crypto-coin miners, more

SafePay ransomware gang claims Microlise attack that disrupted prison van tracking

Fledgling band of crooks says it stole 1.2 TB of data

Helpline for Yakuza victims fears it leaked their personal info

Organized crime types tend not to be kind to those who go against them, so this is nasty

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Software

We can clone you wholesale: Boffins build ML agents that respond like specific people

Oh, AI wanna be like you, AI wanna walk like you, talk like you, too

One thing AI can't generate at the moment – compelling reasons to use it for work

Our vultures think this tech is interesting but in its 8-bit stage

Now’s your chance to try Microsoft’s controversial Windows Recall ... maybe

Like its AI, this automated screenshotter and logger is a feature not exactly everyone wanted

Amazon bets another $4B on Anthropic

You just gonna stand there, Google, let AWS take the 'primary training partner' title? Not gonna do nothing?

Public developer spats put bcachefs at risk in Linux

Fisticuffs in FOSS-land! Fancy file system's future fraught!

Microsoft pulls text recognition from Photos app preview

OCR tech not quite ready for primetime, in this bit of Windows at least

A year after Broadcom took control of VMware, it's in the box seat

Customers are 'all miserable' but not yet deciding to bail - and AT&T appears to have settled its licensing dispute

AI PCs: 'Something will have to give in 2025, and I think it's pricing'

Consultant bemoans lack of use cases and businesses' budget

Whomp-whomp: AI PCs make users less productive

People just don't know how to wrangle chatbots into useful things, Intel says

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Why Google's Chrome monopoly won't crack anytime soon

Haven't we heard this story before?

SpaceX closing in on approval for 25 Starship launches in 2025

Draft environmental assessment ready for public scrutiny

BOFH: The devil's in the contract details

But at least we have the PFY – and beautiful views from the office window

India's Moon orbiter was shifted suddenly to avoid Korea's and NASA's craft

Apparently there's not enough space in space

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